(Black Serpents Guild Library, Section Zeta-9 – The Chrono Lock Archives)
*SWAP*
Leo flipped the page.
The ominous warning on the first page faded behind him as he turned to the next sheet, only to find the beginning of a memoir-style log.
The handwriting was elegant yet firm, the ink slightly smudged by time, as a bold heading was etched across the top of the page:
"Field Log, penned by Captain Aelric Vonn"
Beneath it, a carefully written subtitle:
Day 0: Mission Brief
"Our squad has been deployed under classified directive 47-XJ.
Our objective is to track and eliminate Subject D, a wanted war criminal who fled into a Time-Stilled World via an unstable vortex tear in the Kael Vortex region.
Entry has been authorized for seven personnel: five assassin's from the cult under my command and one high-sensitivity empath-class prisoner, who has been promised conditional freedom in exchange for guiding us to the fugitive.
